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JOHN D. PARSONS, OF ALBAN Y, NEW YORK.

-Lette'rs Patent No. 90,017, dated May 11, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN ADVERTISING-CALETDAR$ The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the name.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN D. PARSONS, of the city and county of Albany, and Stateof New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Calendars, denominated an Advertising-Calendar; and I hereby declare the following to be a full and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon making a part of this specification.

' The nature of my invention consists in the arrangement of an advertising-calendar in two parts, consisting of a permanent cap or top-piece, combined with a changeable calendar or table foreach month in the year, .and also for advertisiiig-purposes.

Figure 1, in the accompanying drawing, represents such permanent cap or top piece, which may be composed of sheet-tin, sheet-brass, or any other metallic substance, or non-metallic, suitable for such purpose.

A A. represent projections, forming a part of said cap or top-piece, to receive the calendar, or tables com posing the same, by means of which the said calendar andcap are united, or combined together for use.

'Figur e 2 represents the calendar part of the said advertising-calendar, consisting of leaves or tables arranged in the order-of the months of the year.

These leaves, composing the calendar proper, may be attached together and to the top-piece by means of the projections upon the top-piece, or they may be fastened together independently of those projections. If fastened together independently of such projections, they may be attached together by means of the com mon eyelet, leaving a hole through the same, through which the top projections pass to attach or combine the two paits of the calendar together, or they may be attached by means of a maleand female eyelet,

combined in one, as represented in Figure 3 of the If attached by means of the projections on the cap, then those projections are made to pass through the several leaves, binding them together, and attaching the calendar to the 'top at the same time.

The tables forming the calendar are constructed and arranged as follows: i

The numbers from 1 to 31 are arranged in vertical columns, standing side by side, from left to right, making seven in number, so that the first column shall read vertically 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, and the top line of col-, umns shall read from left to right, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, the second line of the table reading 8, 9, 10, 11, 12,

13, 14, and thus on until the table is made to include the numbers from 1 to 31, inclusive.

The months are to be applied to this table by placing over the top of the first column a separate strip, containing the name of the day of the week upon which the month commences, and heading each of the succeeding columns with each of the succeeding names of the days of a week, thus applying the names of each day in a week to its respective column of numbers,representing the days of the month on which such day of the week will occur.

By this method, one table only will be necessary for all the months of the year, and each month will be applied to the table by arranging the caption so that the day of the week on which the month commences shall head the first column, and each succeedingday heading a succeeding column, as in Figure L This method 9f arranging the table of days in a month, and applying the days of the week thereto, is preferable to the old method, so far as the expense is concerned, because it will take less paper to make the calendar, and the cap and single sheet become permanent, and do not require renewing each year, which is novel, useful, and economical.

The mode of using the calendar is as follows:

When a month has elapsed, and the following commences, remove so much of the calendar as pertains to the past month by cutting, tearing, or otherwise separating such leaf from the remaining part thereof.

The cap or top-piece is covered with paper, or other substance, capable of taking an impression of any printed matter, or device for advertising or other purposes.

The top of each table adapting the month to the columns of days, arranged in the table or tables, is headed by the month for which it is arranged. The names of the month and of the days 'of the week are printed on separate slips of paper to be adjusted to the table, as in Figure 5.

Having thus fully described my said improvement,

What I claim as my invention, and seek to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination of a permanent metallic cap with Witnesses Gno. Dawson, JOEL Trnnm. 

